[genpk]

As much as we see all this hype about companies going green and car manufacturers going full electric and govt targets etc, the sad reality is i cant see diesels or petrol engines disappearing in countries with vast distances with nothing in between cities like Africa, Australia, South America etc.
You cant tell me you are going to run 100 ton iron ore haul pack trucks, agricultural harvesters etc on electric, these things run 24hrs a day.
Besides that, all these electric cars will require charging stations, where does the
base load power come from? mostly fossil fuel fed power stations.
We had this crazy situation over here in Australia where a local state govt put in these unrealistic emission targets, setup wind power turbines, solar generation.
All was fine until the weather got cloudy and the wind stopped for a few days,
Shut the whole state down for 3 days, cost millions, they ended up having to tap into another states power grid to get up and going again, and guess what, it was base load power from a coal fired power station that saved the day.
Whilst i agree getting rid of pollutants is an admirable goal, the peanuts coming up with these goals have little grasp on the reality of their dreams.
There has to be the technology and a transitional period into these idealistic schemes or there will be severe economic ramifications for all of us consumers.
Unfortunately, many of these social designers are so far removed from every day reality they cant see the wood for the trees.
No one has yet explained where the economic rational is when it takes the same amount of emissions to build an electric car as per a standard fossil fuel car, or
how an electric car that costs twice as much as a fossil fuel car, and needs a new battery every 10 years which costs about half of the original purchase value
is going to have any resale value?
As much as we all want a cleaner world, im afraid the dreamers are putting the cart before the horse at the moment.
Technology will catch up eventually but not right now.
All these lofty goals will do is cripple economies and allow countries with massive manufacturing economies that pay lip service to becoming more environentally compliant huge advantages economically.
Now , if some one can build a cost effective hydrogen generator for cars- now that is another whole matter !!!